Shiro Mizutani

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; lite…

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowde…

Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase…

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young te…

A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.

Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Sat…

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition conte…